The PC maker will begin taking orders for its new Dimension e521 and c521 desktops, which will offer AMD’s Sempron, Athlon 64 and dual-core Athlon 64 X2 chips, on Sept. 13.

The desktops, designed for consumers and small and midsize businesses will begin shipping in volume several days later, company executives said.

The new desktops—themselves part of a cadre of new desktops the Round Rock, Texas, PC maker company introduced for businesses and consumers on Sept. 12 at its Technology Day, here—are part of a broader effort by Dell to broaden its product line in 2006.

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Today, the hard drive is found everywhere–from the PCs we use daily to MP3 players and memory keys so small you can toss them in your pocket and forget you’re carrying around a hard drive. But when the hard drive was first introduced on September 13, 1956, it required a humongous housing and 50 24-inch platters to store 1/2400 as much data as can be fit on today’s largest capacity 1-inch hard drives.

Back then, the small team at IBM’s San Jose-based lab was seeking a way to replace tape with a storage mechanism that allowed for more-efficient random access to data. The question was, how to bring random-access storage to business computing?

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I WANT THIS PHONE!

I am sure some of you have read about the mysterious Cingular 3025 over on MSMobiles.com, and the various places it has been “reposted”. Well I have been sitting on something for sometime now (not willingly but out of a respectful request from a source). My source after seeing all of these “rumors” has given me permission to post what “I” know about this subject.
more of this at : http://www.mobilegadgetnews.com/index.php?showtopic=12843

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to go and find the phone.

As we observe the fifth anniversary of 9/11 - the September 11th, 2001 attacks on the United States and the toppling of the World Trade Center - we note some related Internet legacies and resources.

The first is the phenomena of terrorist organizations openly creating terrorist recruitment and hate-mongering sites, and the tandem phenomena of hackers starting to target and take down those sites. Where government agencies - particularly U.S. government agencies - are hamstrung by rules and regulations and the protection of freedom of speech, hackers are not. Hackers have started to take down terror sites as quickly as they go up. (Read more about hackers taking down terror sites here.)

As the Iraq war waged, and concurrently more and more people began to use the Internet to disseminate news and to share first person accounts, pictures and accounts of attrocities ricocheted around the globe at Internet speed - faster even than television news speed. But now it’s no longer just news sites and blogs that are utilizing the Internet to get the word and the picture out. Official sites are now taking the war on terror to the people using the Internet. As an example, the Army Times posts footage of a sniper attack in which a soldier is wounded

Read the rest at: http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/911-and-the-internet